Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
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When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
